Re: culture ... (aka there are/no cultures)

In a message dated 8/10/2003 6:26:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tganesh@stlawu.edu writes:

> 1) Let us not forget that it is anthropologists who had 
> done the most extensive work in the area of "culture(s)".

I would say its the cultural studies people--working from a convergence of 
English marxism (Hill, Thompson, Williams, etc) and Western Marxism (Gramsci, 
Althusser, Frankfurters) and a large dollop of French don't-call-them-post 
(Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard) who have been most responsible for pushing the 
question of culture onto the agenda of the social sciences.  Anthropologists 
have engaged intensely with this development, while sociologists have been much 
more stand-offish.  In its own way, Wallerstein's work represents one of the 
more considered responses to this development.

Steven Sherman